English 207MG - Sci Writing:Imagining Illness

An exploration of the ways writers from a range;of time periods and cultures represent--directly;or metaphorically--illness and disease, diagnosis;and treatment, suffering and healing. The course;considers, as do growing numbers of medical;educators and health professionals, the relations;between interpretative skills and clinical;practice, especially in attending to the stories;both patients and texts try to tell. Readings;will be selected from works by Berger, Edson,;Fadiman, Grealy, Kafka, Lahiri, Lessing, Mann,;McEwan, O'Neill, Saramago, Sontag, Sophocles,;Williams, and Woolf.